Well, I need an RSS feed for any info here on auto trannies for a 1983 GL.

My son's car had a failing kick-down cable; we patched it together for a bit, but it failed completely. We then couldn't even get car into overdrive, and spent bucks to replace the OD solenoid. Then the shift speeds for all speeds were too high, and we theorized that it was the now terminally ill kickdown cable. We found a used one, and had a tranny shop put it in. While waiting to get the car to the shop, and limping around on the dying kickdown cable, the car started blowing the OD fuse in the fuse box. The tranny place diagnosed a failed or failing OD relay as probable cause of blowing the fuse, and used part is on order from someone on eBay. I should note that the shop that replaced the solenoid also said the OD relay was failing, so this wasn't a great surprise.

Wednesday, we picked the car up with the newly acquired used kickdown cable installed; car went through 1st, 2nd, 3rd just fine. Thursday, car worked fine. Today, it is misty outside and the tranny won't go into 2nd gear. Transmission shop theorizes that something in the throttle body to which the kickdown attaches may be sticking; or when they took off the pan for the tranny and put in new fluid as a result, something may have washed out and is now sticking. I think that's what he said. He suggested just kicking the accellerator pedal down firmly while car is off, or at least not in car, to see if that loosens anything up. Does anyone have other suggestions of what would prevent an auto tranny from upshifting given this tortured history?

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83 240 GL